Subject: Re: Unix POP client?

From: Steve Howie <[email-masked]>
Date: 3 Jan 1997 05:12:41 GMT

[email-masked] (Matt Wu) writes:
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>It'd be treat if PINE or elm could read from POP servers, but I don't
>think they can.

As an aside, there is a Unix POP client called "mutt" - do a Web or Archie
search for it. 

Scotty
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From: [email-masked] (Paul Southworth)
Date: 29 Dec 1996 23:54:37 GMT

>It'd be treat if PINE or elm could read from POP servers, but I don't 

Pine can communicate directly with POP3 servers.  Undocumented feature.

Tell your .pinerc to do inbox-path like so:

   inbox-path={your.mail.host/110}inbox

Enjoy your treat. ;)

--Paul

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From: Fabrizio Talucci <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 19:15:16 -0800

Francis CHARTIER wrote:
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> Le Thu, 02 Jan 1997 20:40:31 -0800, Fabrizio Talucci <[email-masked]> a
> écrit :
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> >Paul Southworth wrote:
> 
> >Actually, i use
> >
> >    inbox-path={your.mail.host/pop3}inbox
> >
> >and I confirm; it is undocumented.
> >
> >Does anyone knows why?
> 
> AFAIK, it is documented in the MAN page for pine 3.95
> Well, I use it cos' I read it somewhere, I'm no guru... ;-[
> 

Yes, but the time I installed my PINE, 3.95 was a dream!
I can't remember the release that I used, but I remember that I browsed
the MAN and more, without find anything about POP feature. I came across
the POP feature reading the PINE Web page; there was only a hidden and
little note on how to do this but nothing else. This note has made the
PINE fortune! In fact, here (CSD-UCLA) everybody seems to use Procmail
with Elm. I, instead, I like the old POP fashion.
Every time, POP gives me the same shiver of uncorking a bottle of
CAMPAGNE!
Happy new year.
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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 18:14:23 +0100 (MET)

>   inbox-path={your.mail.host/110}inbox

My pop account needs my username and my password as additional parameters. Is
that possible, too?

Cheers,
Robin

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From: [email-masked] (Francis CHARTIER)
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 13:01:41 GMT

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From: Kevin Berry <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 02:32:00 -0600

> and I confirm; it is undocumented.

I think it has something to do with the fact that doesn't seem quite
perfected, yet.  Yes, it functions and all, but, one seems to have to
restart pine in order to retrieve new mail.
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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 15:50:14 -0800 (PST)

It's also because when most people think of POP, they assume *offline*
access, which Pine doesn't do yet.  (Pine uses POP in "quasi-online"
mode --within the limitations of POP-- so the connection to the server
is maintained during the session.)

By the way, the Pine FAQ has a section on using POP.

-teg

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From: Fabrizio Talucci <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 20:40:31 -0800

Actually, i use

 
Does anyone knows why?

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From: Gregor J Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 12:38:16 -0500 (EST)

| Paul Southworth wrote:
 | > 
 | > [email-masked] (Matt Wu) writes:
 | > >
 | > >It'd be treat if PINE or elm could read from POP servers, but I don't
 | > >think they can.
 | > 
 | > Pine can communicate directly with POP3 servers.  Undocumented feature.
 | > 
 | 
 | and I confirm; it is undocumented.

... not at all undocumented. Read the PINE FAQ at cac.washington.edu

Yours

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From: [email-masked] (Francis CHARTIER)
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 13:02:48 GMT

>As an aside, there is a Unix POP client called "mutt" - do a Web or Archie

You can use fetchmail or getmail, then use Pine to read you local mail.

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From: Fabrizio Talucci <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 14:09:32 -0800

> My pop account needs my username and my password as additional parameters. Is

Robin, when you'll install PINE with the POP3 feature everytime PINE
starts it will ask you for the username (You can preload a default one)
and a password (You can't). This is a little bit boring. 
I get access to my Unix server by phone with a MAC. Connecting in VT100
i have instructed my MAC VT 100 teminal emulation program to put
username and password automatically. (See the New : PINE vs EUDORA)
Another possibility, but i have not tried yet, is to exploit the
possibility of PINE to record and play when it starts, a sequence of
keystrokes.